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Mets Chat Room; offense remains stagnant

The make-or-break road trip to start the second half is breaking them. Who knows? Matter it will shatter them by the time they return home.

The Mets have Carlos Beltran and Jose Reyes back, but that hasn’t helped their stagnant offense, which is hitting .203 during the Mets last ten games. The Mets have gone 2-8 in that span, including 1-5 since the break.

They’ve scored just 18 runs in those ten games and 12 in the last six. Two wins is about right.

Once 11 games over .500 and a game behind Atlanta, the Mets are now four over and trail by 6 ½ games. They are behind in the wild-card by 2 ½ games, but have some leapfrogging to do. One of the teams in their way are the Dodgers, whom they’ll play in a four-game series this weekend.

The Mets’ listless offense has abandoned Johan Santana all season, and last night it was R.A. Dickey. Jon Niese is in line to be tonight’s hard luck starter. Niese has lost consecutive starts despite a 2.45 ERA, getting all of one run.

“I always want to think my team’s going to score runs, because we’ve got a great lineup,’’ Niese said. “There’s never a doubt in my mind that we can score runs.’’

You know one thing we haven’t broached…Alex Cora’s outburst. I read that he admonished teammates last night who were laughing it up after a loss — and REPORTERS. What’s Cora doing admonishing reporters?

45 Oy vey! I’ve been in locker rooms with notebook and pen in hand after teams lose. For goodness sake, I can understand if there’s a death or something but c’mon…it’s losing a regular season game, not being eliminated for the season.

Poor Gary Cohen. There’s still so much hope in his voice despite what’s going on with the team. I feel so bad for him. Even though he’s been down with the Mets as long as we have, I feel like the parent who dreads telling the little kid one day that Santa Claus is a myth. I keep wanting to be wrong in saying the Mets won’t deliver this year, but they keep proving me wrong — and making me a realist.

65 I might go with Beltran. I was at the game in San Diego in which he and Mike Cameron had that awful collision. How much can go wrong in a year for one player? Beltran struggled at the plate (only Mike Piazza provided any protection in the lineup), eventually got booed at home, had knee issues and then nearly had his face rearranged in that collision.
With Bonilla and Foster, they were both expected to be saviors; Saberhaged had that weird odd-year success, followed by even-year failure thing; Vince Coleman was just a jackass; and Putz was damaged goods. Bay? I just don’t get it.

FINAL: Diamondbacks 4, Mets 3 (14).
RECORD: 49-46.
THUMBNAIL ANALYSIS: A brutal road trip continues as the Mets were swept by the Diamondbacks. So much for team meetings.
ON THE MOUND: Jon Niese gave up three runs on six hits, three of them solo homers. … Oliver Perez returns. … Raul Valdes was spectacular in relief. Fernando Nieve was not and took the loss.
AT THE PLATE: Angel Pagan and Rod Barajas homered. … Jason Bay continues to struggle. … Carlos Beltran drove in his first run of the season.
IN THE FIELD: David Wright committed his tenth error to prolong the game in the ninth.
LOOKING AHEAD: Hisanori Takahashi gets the start tomorrow night.-JD